Section: New Results

Model-free control

The model free control techniques form a new and quickly developing area of control theory. It has been established by the team members and nowadays these tools find many practical applications and attract a lot of attention due to their clear advantages for designers: they provide a control law independently in the model knowledge. The achievements obtained in 2013 are as follows:

• A new development of the model-free control theory with application to active magnetic bearing control have been presented in [53] .

• ”Model-free control” and the corresponding ”intelligent” PID controllers (iPIDs), which already had many successful concrete applications, have been presented in [27] for the first time in a unified manner, where the new advances have been taken into account.

• In [62] , it is shown that the "intelligent" controllers, which are associated to the recently introduced model-free control synthesis, may be easily implemented on cheap and small programmable devices.

• An application of the model-free control for regulation of the water level under several constraints has been reported in [40] .